Parasite Movie Trivia
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100 free Parasite Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Parasite trivia quiz covers Bong Joon Ho's 2019 black comedy, the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture. It follows the Kim family from their semi-basement flat into the Park house: the scholar's rock, Kevin and Jessica, the framed chauffeur, the peach allergy, the housekeeper's secret in the bunker, the flood, the birthday party and the Morse code from the basement. Behind the scenes it covers the play Bong wrote after tutoring a rich family, The Housemaid and the Papin sisters, the specially built house and flooding street, Darcy Paquet's subtitles and the invention of 'ram-don', the score's borrowed Handel, the black-and-white version and the film Bong edited on a decade-old copy of Final Cut Pro. A final round takes in the Palme d'Or at Cannes, the SAG ensemble award, and the 92nd Academy Awards, where Bong collected four statuettes and thanked Martin Scorsese. Note: this page is about the 2019 film, not the biology. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who directed Parasite?
Bong Joon Ho
He co-wrote it with Han Jin-won, his production assistant on Snowpiercer.
Q 02In Parasite, what kind of home do the Kims live in?
A semi-basement flat
A semi-basement flat, or banjiha, was Bong's deliberate choice: still half above ground, he said, so the Kims keep a little sunlight and the hope that they haven't hit bottom yet.
Q 03In Parasite's opening scene, what are Ki-woo and Ki-jung hunting for around their home?
A free Wi-Fi signal
A free Wi-Fi signal is the prize: the neighbour upstairs has added a password, so the siblings roam with phones held high until they find one beside the toilet.
Q 04In Parasite, what job does Ki-woo take over from his friend Min-hyuk?
English tutor to Da-hye
English tutor to Da-hye is a post Min-hyuk hands to Ki-woo because he trusts him not to chase her: he plans to ask her out himself when he returns from abroad.
Q 05In Parasite, what Western name does Ki-woo use with the Parks?
Kevin
Kevin is the name Ki-woo gives the Parks, along with a university certificate his sister forged; he tells his father it isn't a crime, since he plans to enrol there next year.
Q 06In Parasite, what role does Ki-jung take in the Park household as 'Jessica'?
Art therapist to Da-song
Art therapist to Da-song is a role Ki-jung bluffs her way through: she admits she just searched 'art therapy' online and improvised until Mrs Park was in tears.
Q 07In Parasite, how do the Kims get the Parks' chauffeur Yoon sacked?
Planting underwear in the car
Planting underwear in the car is Ki-jung's trick: Mr Park finds it, assumes Yoon has been having sex on the back seat and quietly lets him go, opening the job for Ki-taek.
Q 08In Parasite, which allergy do the Kims exploit to oust the housekeeper Moon-gwang?
Peach
Peach fuzz dusted over Moon-gwang sets off her allergy; Bong took the idea from a college friend who turned red all over when classmates tested his peach allergy with the real fruit.
Q 09In Parasite, who is secretly living in the bunker beneath the Parks' home?
The housekeeper's husband
The housekeeper's husband, Geun-sae, has hidden there from loan sharks for more than four years, fed in secret by his wife; he is the 'ghost' that once terrified Da-song.
Q 10In Parasite, who built the secret bunker beneath the Parks' home?
The house's architect and previous owner
The house's architect and previous owner, Namgoong, never told the Parks about it; Moon-gwang guesses he was embarrassed, saying the rich build such rooms in case of invasion or angry creditors.
Q 11In Parasite, why do the Parks come home early from their camping trip?
A severe rainstorm
A severe rainstorm washes out the trip, and Mrs Park phones to say they are eight minutes away, sending the Kims scrambling to clear up and hide.
Q 12In Parasite, where do the Kims spend the night after being driven out of their home?
A gymnasium
A gymnasium serves as an emergency shelter, where Ki-taek lies among hundreds of displaced neighbours and tells his son that the only plan that never fails is having no plan.
Q 13In Parasite, what occasion is the garden party at the climax held for?
Da-song's birthday
Q 21Who plays the daughter, Ki-jung, in Parasite?
Park So-dam
Park So-dam turned to independent films after some 17 failed auditions, and went on to play the Kim who slips most easily into the world of the rich.
Q 22Which K-drama star has a cameo in Parasite as Min-hyuk?
Park Seo-joon
Park Seo-joon's Min-hyuk leaves to study abroad in the opening minutes, and it is his departure that gives the Kims their way into the Park house.
Q 23What did Bong first plan Parasite as, before it became a film?
A play
A play was what a friend from the theatre had been urging Bong to write, so he pictured a story that could be staged in just two homes before deciding it had to be a film.
Da-song's birthday party is thrown together by Mrs Park that very morning, and she rings the Kims to come and help without knowing they have just lost their home.
Q 14In Parasite, what does Geun-sae use to bludgeon Ki-woo?
A scholar's rock
A scholar's rock, a gift meant to bring the Kims wealth, is carried down to the bunker by Ki-woo himself, and there it is turned on him.
Q 15In Parasite, how does Chung-sook kill Geun-sae during the party?
With a barbecue skewer
With a barbecue skewer still loaded with meat, driven into his side in the struggle, moments after he has stabbed her daughter Ki-jung.
Q 16In Parasite, what does Mr Park do that finally drives Ki-taek to stab him?
Holds his nose at a smell
Holds his nose at a smell: Mr Park recoils from the dying Geun-sae while grabbing the car keys, the same disgust Ki-taek has overheard him voice about his own smell.
Q 17At the end of Parasite, how does Ki-taek send messages from the bunker?
Morse code with a light
Morse code with a light was Geun-sae's trick first; Ki-taek copies it from the bunker, flashing out a letter that his son reads from outside the house.
Q 18Who plays the father, Kim Ki-taek, in Parasite?
Song Kang-ho
Song Kang-ho was cast before the script was finished: Bong had first spotted him in the 1990s and made him the lead of Memories of Murder and The Host.
Q 19Who plays Mr Park, the wealthy father, in Parasite?
Lee Sun-kyun
Lee Sun-kyun plays Park Dong-ik, a company chief whose trusting wife does the hiring, the opening that lets the Kims take over the household one job at a time.
Q 20In Parasite, which American city does Ki-jung's doorstep rhyme give 'Jessica' as part of her cover story?
Chicago
Chicago, Illinois features in the cover story Ki-jung sings at the Parks' gate to drill it into her brother, a rhyme fans nicknamed the 'Jessica Jingle'.
Q 24Which real experience of Bong's inspired the story of Parasite?
Tutoring a rich family's son
Tutoring a rich family's son in maths, a job his girlfriend arranged although he was bad at maths, left Bong feeling he was infiltrating the private lives of strangers.
Q 25Which classic Korean film did Bong cite as an influence on Parasite?
The Housemaid
The Housemaid, Kim Ki-young's thriller about a maid who tears a middle-class home apart, is one Bong recommends to newcomers; he has said Parasite is, in ways, a homage to it.
Q 26Which real 1930s French crime helped inspire Parasite?
The Papin sisters' killings
The Papin sisters' killings came in Le Mans in 1933: the two live-in maids murdered the wife and daughter of the family they served, a case often linked to Genet's drama The Maids.
Q 27In Parasite's English subtitles, what word did Darcy Paquet coin for the dish jjapaguri?
Ram-don
Ram-don blends ramen and udon, because the dish mixes two brands of instant noodle; Paquet later admitted he was embarrassed to have made the word up.
Q 28In Parasite's English subtitles, which university replaces Seoul National University in Ki-taek's joke?
Oxford
Oxford was Darcy Paquet's swap so the forgery joke would land at once; he thought Harvard too obvious a choice and believed Bong was fond of England.
Q 29How was the Park family's house in Parasite created for filming?
Purpose-built as a set
Purpose-built as a set on an outdoor lot, with its upper floor added digitally, the house was convincing enough that film-makers on a festival jury assumed it was a real home.
Q 30Which outdated software did Yang Jin-mo use to edit Parasite?
Final Cut Pro 7
Final Cut Pro 7, last updated in 2011, was simply what Yang Jin-mo knew and trusted; he used it to stitch separate takes into seamless single shots.